Christmas-tree holder.



durable, eiicient and convenient CHRSTMAS-TREE HOLDER.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented not.. ie, rait.,

Application ined Januay 24, 1914.-. serial No. 814,114.

'o @ZZ whom I? mai/'concern Be it lin-own that l, Gann A. Dinnsnions, a citizen ot the l.Vlnited Statesof America, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful l1nprovements in Christmas/Tree Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference had therein to the accompanying rThis invention relates to Christmas tree holders, and has 'for its object to provide :a device of such class, in a manner as here` inafter set forth for not only maintaining the Christmas tree in an upright position, hut 'further provided with means to constitute a reservoir containing water into which 'the trunk oi' the tree extends whereby the tree maintained in a fresh condition. i ri. further object ot the invention is to provide a Christmas tree holder, in a inanner ars hereinafter set forth, whereby trees having ditlierent diameters of trunks can he maintained in an upright position.

Further objects ot' the invention are to projfide a (/hristinas tree holder, which is simple in its construction and arrangement, in its use, readily set up and comparatively ineXpensive to manufacture.

lilith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of paris as hereinafter-more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown an embodiment ol the invention, but itis to be understood that-changes, variations and modifications y can he resorted to which come within the scopeol'the claim hereunto appended.

' ln the drawings wherein like reference characters denote corresponding a vertical sectional view of Christmas tree holder in accordance with this invention, showing the adaptation thereot1 in connection with a trunk et a tree. Fig'. 2 is a top plan viewot a holder, the trunk of the 'tree losing in section. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a modified form of sleeve and arrangement et' clamping screws, and l5" 4: is a top plan view of the form shoer-in Fig. 3.y

Referring to the drawings in detail, 3 denotes a hollow cylindrical base whichprovides a reservoir l adapted to normally c0ntain a body et 5. The base 3 is closed clamping screws 18 provided with other parts throughout the several views :mlhgure 1 1s' at its top and bottom as at 6 7 respectively and the bottom 7 of the base 3 is formed with laterally extending apertured spaced lugs 8, through which entend holdt'ast devices 9 for detachably securing` the base 3 to a suitable support. rlhe hase 3 1s preterably formed ot' metallic the top 6 vthereof provided with a filling opening 10, the. wall of which registers with a collar 11, the latter with the top 6 and is interiorly threaded. Detachably engaging with the threads of the collar 11 is a peripherally threaded jplugg,Y l2 having a flanged finger piece 13. When the plug 12 is removed, the reservoir 4: can be filled with water.

The top (3 of the reservoir d, centrally 'of said top is provided with anopening.;r 14:, and formed integral with said top (i, is a. vertically disposed sleeve le, preferably cylindrical in cross section. Clhe inner tace of the sleeve 15 forms a continuation of the Wall of the opening 1d and said sleeve 15 intermediate its ends is provided with a series of laterally extending/interiorly thread ed collars 16, which register with the openings 17 formed in the sleeve 15. Adjustably engaging in the threaded collar 'lo and capable ot extending into the sleeve 15 are thumb pieces 19. The screws 18 are employed lor clamping the trunk 2O of a tree to a holder. The trunk extends down through the sleeve 15 and into the water 5.

ln the drawings, the trunk 20 of the tree is shown as filling the sleeve 15, but it is obvious that a trunk of a reduced diameter with respect to the diameter ot' the sleeve 15 can be secured `to the holder through the medium of the clamping' screws 18, or in words, the clampingY screws 18 in connection with the collar 16 and sleeve 15 provides means for securing trees in' position having trunks of varying diameters. The clamping screws 1S also provide means for securing the trunk of the tree centrally with respect to the sleeve 15.

ln Figs. 3 and 4 the sleeve is indicated by the reference character 21 and the clamping screws by the reference character 22.

Two setsof clamping' screws are employed, lone set being' arranged above the'other and "with the screws of the upper set out of ven tical alineinent with respect to the screws ot' the lov/er set. In the form shown inv Figs. 3 l, the sleeve 21 is not provided with material and has being formed integral Y dit the collars or-'bosses 16, but the material from Which the sleeve is constructed is of suficientrmthiekness so that the necessary nnmberg theads-vonthewalls of the' openingsthrogh which the clamping screws eX- ,tend canl be provided. illustrated in .f Figs. l3*..an'd' 4, the trunk of .the tree is indii, cated by the referencecharacter 23 'and is of 1 materially less diameter than )the inner dameter of the sleeve. Thetri of the tree is maintained in lposition by the clamping Screwsgg. I z l A Christmas ree holder cmprising a hol- 'loW oylindricalbaseclosed at its bottom and having its :tanp'- provided with a centrally disposedgopening, said baise constituting a reservoir, alvertically extending sleeve integral with the top of the base and registering' .of a tree for clamping' it to/asleeve, said "sleeve of greater height than 'said hase, and

a series' of laterally extending spaced aper- .tured lugs projecting from the` bottoni of the base and through which is adapted to extend hold fast devices for ixcdly securing?r the hase to a support.

In testimony whereof l aiix my signature in the presence of two 'Witnesses CARL A. DIEDERlC/HS.

Witnesses NICHOLAS L. BOGAN, CARL A. DIEDERIGHS, Jr. 

